Data Protection Information

For us, Kugel- und Rollenlagerwerk Leipzig GmbH (KRW), the protection of your privacy when processing your personal data is an important matter, which we treat with high respect within all of our business processes and under the consideration of the legal requirements.

Subsequently we would like to inform you about the processing of your personal data through us and your legal rights founded on data protection regulations.

 

1. Controller and Data Protection Officer

Controller, legally represented by the managing directors Andreas Fitzner, Andreas Poltsch and Nico Taubert, is:

Kugel- und Rollenlagerwerk Leipzig GmbH
Gutenbergstraße 6
04178 Leipzig
Germany

Phone +49 341 45320 0
Fax +49 341 45320 601

E-mail: info@krw.de

 

Our company data protection officer is available for all your issues related to data protection at KRW and questions in accordance with the realisation of your rights. To contact our data protection officer please use following information:

Kugel- und Rollenlagerwerk Leipzig GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Gutenbergstraße 6
04178 Leipzig
Germany

Phone +49 341 45320 0

E-mail: datenschutz@krw.de

 

2. Data Categories, Purposes of Processing and legal basis

We process your personal data, especially your name, company, address, (mobile) phone, fax, e-mail-address, data of contract and technical product data for the

  • proper handling of the contracts you are a party of based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. (b) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
  • enforcement or defence of civil claims out of contractual or legal obligations based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. (f) and par. 4 GDPR
  • realisation of marketing actions respec­tively the usage of marketing tools with your agreement based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. a) GDPR,
  • direct advertising via mail and e-mail, insofar it is legal also without your agreement based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. (f) GDPR and
  • as far as the processing and use of your data is legally necessary, e. g. for the compliance with fiscal and commercial record retention periods based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. (c) GDPR.

 

3. Recipient

The processing of your personal data occurs primarily internal in our company. For this purpose the relevant posts, which need your personal data to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations, get access to those data. A transfer to external partners under certain conditions cannot be excluded in context with normal business activities. If so, this may include the transfer to

  • public institutions on existence of official or legal obligations,
  • postal services and forwarding agencies for the delivery of mailing  and consignments,
  • IT services in case of maintenance or disturbance,
  • insurances,
  • credit institutions as financial partners,
  • other service providers, which are bound by instructions and processing the personal data by our order and under abidance by the data protection regulations also as
  • certified accountants, tax counsellors, advocates and courts

 

4. Transfer to third countries

Transfers of your personal data to third countries (countries not included in the European Union or European Economic Area) or international organisations are not intended. Otherwise, should it be needed, we will contact beforehand to inform you and get your consent if necessary.

 

5. Legitimate Interests of Processing According to Art. 6 par. 1 lit. (f) GDPR in Connection with Recital 47

The processing and use of your personal data for enforcement or defence of civil claims out of contractual or legal obligations occur in our legitimate interest in this.

The processing and use of your personal data for direct advertising via mail or e-mail, if allowed even without your agreement occur in our legitimate interest to ensure optimal services for you, to strengthen our business relations with you and to improve our offered products and services.

 

6. Period of Storage

We store your personal data only as long as it is necessary for the previously mentioned purposes. This means

  • for the handling of the contracts and enforcement or defence of civil claims out of contractual or legal obligations with you until the end of the year which is followed by the limitation period of all mutual requirements,
  • for direct advertising until the receipt of your objection against the processing of your data for this purpose and a reasonable handling time and
  • as long as the storage is legally required or a possible advertising objection needs to be considered.

 

7. Right to Object regarding Advertising

At any time you have the right to object to the processing of your data for direct advertising. To this you can contact us under aforementioned contact details. If you object to the processing of your data for direct advertising, we will not use your data for this purpose in the future.

 

8. Other Rights

Taking into account the respective requirements you also have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). In addition, you are entitled to object to the processing based on art. 6 par. 1 lit. (f) GDPR (Art. 21 par. 1 GDPR).

Furthermore as per art. 77 GDPR you have the right to lodge a complaint with a responsible supervisory authority if you deem the processing of your personal data as not legitimate. The responsible supervisory authority to us is:

Sächsischer Datenschutzbeauftragter
Devrientstraße 1
01067 Dresden
Germany

Phone +49 351 493-5401
Fax +49 351 493-5490

E-mail saechsdsb@slt.sachsen.de
Website: www.datenschutz.sachsen.de

 

9. Protection of Minors

Without the approval of a legal guardian, persons, who have not reached their full legal age, should not send any personal data to us.

 

10. Duty to Provide Personal Data

In line with our business relations, you only have to provide those personal data, which are statutory or contractually required respectively needed for the conclusion of an agreement. Without these data, the conclusion of a contract or its realisation is not possible.

 

11. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

Automated decision-making or profiling as per art. 22 GDPR does not occur.

12. Website

In general, our website can be used without filing any personal data. If there is personal data gathered on our website, it occurs voluntarily when possible.

Please note, that security flaws can affect a transfer of data on the internet. A complete protection of data against the access of third parties is not possible.

This website uses cookies and other services that may collect anonymized usage data that your browser transmits during your visit. These are used for marketing purposes or user-friendliness (for example, by optimizing content or integrating functionalities). 

The legal basis for data processing by cookies and other services is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Objection to data collection

You can object to the collection of your data by services that are not essential for the functionality of the website at any time by clicking on the following link: Adjust cookie settings

An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this website.

Please note that if you deactivate these services, some of the functions of this website may be restricted.
 

12.2 Server-Log-Files

The provider of websites gathers and saves automatically information in so-called server-log-files, which your browser automatically sends to us. These are:

  • browser type and version
  • used operating system
  • refferer URL
  • hostname of the accessing device
  • time and server inquiry

Those data cannot be not matched to a specific person. We will not carry out a conflation of these data with other data sources. If there are concrete indications concerning illegal usage, we reserve the right to investigate those data retroactively.

 

12.3 Contact Form

If you use our contact form for sending us an inquiry, your data including the contact data you put in this form will be saved by us for handling your request and potential further questions. We do not transfer your data to other parties without your agreement.

 

12.4 Google Analytics 

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

For this purpose, we have signed a contract with Google for commissioned data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze user behaviour on the site. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We also use Google Analytics to analyze data from ads and the double-click cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not want this, you can deactivate it via the Ads Preferences Manager.

Please note that on this website we extended Google Analytics with the coding „gat._anonymizeIp();“ to ensure the anonymous recording of IP-addresses (so-called IP-Masking). Therefore, Google will shorten your IP-address within member states of the European Union and European Economic Area before transferring them to a server in the USA. Only in exceptional cases, the complete IP-address is transferred to a server of Google in the USA.

Commissioned by the provider of this website Google will use these information for evaluating your visit on our website, for compiling reports about the activities at this website and for rendering further services related to the usage of this website and the internet towards the provider. The within the contexts of Google Analytics from your browser transferred IP-address will not be conflated with other data from Google.
 

Objection to data collection

You can object to the collection of your data at any time. (See 12. “Objection to data collection”)

In addition you can prevent the acquisition of the data collected with the cookie during the use of our website (including your IP-address) and processing of these data via Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin following the link hereafter mentioned:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
 

12.5 Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Tag Manager can be used to manage the web tracking services integrated into this website (see 12.4 Google Analytics) and other services by means of so-called “tags” (JavaScript code used for tracking). Google Tag Manager implements these tags, but does not set any cookies or collect any personal data. The Google Tag Manager ensures that other components are loaded, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data.

Further information on the data protection of the third-party provider can be found on the following websites:

Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

FAQ Google Tag Manager: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html

Google Tag Manager usage guidelines: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html


Objection to data collection

You can object to the collection of your data at any time. (See 12. “Objection to data collection”)



12.6 YouTube 

Video content is integrated on this website through the use of the functions and services of the third-party provider YouTube Video. YouTube Video is a video platform of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (“YouTube”). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In this way, content from KRW and external content can be integrated into our website for information and marketing purposes. This may include elements such as images, text, videos and buttons.

When a website with an embedded video is accessed, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Cookies and other browser technologies can be used to evaluate user behaviour, recognize users and create user profiles. KRW only receives anonymized data about the use of the video content (e.g. time of access and duration of access). This data is used in statistics to evaluate user behavior in genereal and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual users.
 

Objection to data collection

You can object to the collection of your data at any time. (See 12. “Objection to data collection”)

If you are logged in with a YouTube account during the visit, YouTube can assign activities to your profile. We have no influence or access to this data. You can find information on this in YouTube's privacy policy: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms. You can make changes to the permitted data processing in the settings of your user profile: https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy

12.7     Links to external websites

Our website contains links to external websites (e.g. to dealers who sell our products). We would like to point out that we have no influence on whether their operators comply with data protection regulations.

 

13. Modification of the Data Protection Information

We would like to point out that we might change this data protection information at any time and in strict accordance with the applicable regulations for data protection. The in the moment of your visit on our website available version of the data protection information is valid.

The use of contact data published on this website for unrequested sending of advertise­ment or information materials is explicitly interdicted. For acting contrary, we reserve the right to take legal steps.

 

Leipzig, June 2024